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  :我的世界观

  How strange is the lot of us mortals!

  Each of us is here for a brief sojourn;

  for what purpose he knows not, though he

  sometimes thinks he senses it. But without

  deeper reflection one knows from daily life

  that one exists for other people —

  first of all for those upon whose smiles

  and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent,

  and then for the many, unknown to us,

  to whose destinies we are bound by

  the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day

  I remind myself that my inner and outer life

  are based on the labors of other men, living and dead,

  and that I must exert myself in order to give

  in the same measure as I have received

  and am still receiving. I am strongly drawn

  to a frugal life and am often oppressively

  aware that I am engrossing an undue amount

  of the labor of my fellow-men. I regard

  class distinctions as unjustified and,

  in the last resort, based on force. I also

  believe that a simple and unassuming life

  is good for everybody, physically and mentally.

  I do not at all believe in human freedom

  in the philosophical sense. Everybody acts

  not only under external compulsion but also

  in accordance with inner necessity. Schopenhauer’s saying,

  that “A man can do what he wants, but not want

  what he wants,” has been a very real inspiration

  to me since my youth; it has been a continual consolation

  in the face of life’s hardships, my own and others’,

  and an unfailing well-spring of tolerance.

  This realization mercifully mitigates the easily

  paralyzing sense of responsibility and prevents us from

  taking ourselves and other people all too seriously;

  it is conducive to a view of life which,

  in particular, gives humor its due.To inquire after

  the meaning or object of one’s own existence or

  that of all creatures has always seemed to me

  absurd from an objective point of view. And yet

  everybody has certain ideals which determine

  the direction of his endeavors and his judgments.

  In this sense I have never looked upon ease

  and happiness as ends in themselves —

  this ethical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty.

  The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time

  have given me new courage to face life cheerfully,

  have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without

  the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without

  the occupation with the objective world, the eternally

  unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors,

  life would have seemed to me empty. The trite objects

  of human efforts — possessions, outward success, luxury —

  have always seemed to me contemptible.

  :热爱生活

  However mean your life is, meet it and live it;

  do not shun it and call it hard names.

  It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest

  when you are richest. The fault-finder will

  find faults in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is.

  You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling,

  glorious hours, even in a poor house. The setting sun

  is reflected from the windows of the almshouse

  as brightly as from the rich man’s abode;

  the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.

  I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there,

  and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.

  The town’s poor seem to me often to live

  the most independent lives of any. Maybe they are simply

  great enough to receive without misgiving. Most think that

  they are above being supported by the town;

  but it often happens that they are not above

  supporting themselves by dishonest means,

  which should be more disreputable. Cultivate poverty

  like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much

  to get new things, whether clothes or friends.

  Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change.

  Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
 

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